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10 U.S.C. § 442 — Missions

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10 U.S.C. § 442 — Missions

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**(a) National Security Missions.—** (1) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall, in support of the national security objectives of the United States, provide geospatial intelligence consisting of the following: (A) Imagery. (B) Imagery intelligence. (C) Geospatial information. (2) (A) As directed by the Director of National Intelligence, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall develop a system to facilitate the analysis, dissemination, and incorporation of likenesses, videos, and presentations produced by ground-based platforms, including handheld or clandestine photography taken by or on behalf of human intelligence collection organizations or available as open-source information, into the National System for Geospatial Intelligence. (B) The authority provided by this paragraph does not include authority for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to manage tasking of handheld or clandestine photography taken by or on behalf of human intelligence collection organizations. (3) Geospatial intelligence provided in carrying out paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be timely, relevant, and accurate. **(b) Navigation Information.—** The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall improve the means for safe navigation by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, accurate geospatial information for use by the departments and agencies of the United States, the merchant marine, and navigators generally. **(c) Maps, Charts, Etc.—** The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall acquire, prepare, and distribute maps, safe-for-navigation charts and datasets, books, and geomatics products as authorized under subchapter II of this chapter. **(d) National Missions.—** The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also has national missions as specified in section 110(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3045(a)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3045/a&num=0&edition=prelim)). **(e) Systems.—** The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may, in furtherance of a mission of the Agency, design, develop, deploy, operate, and maintain systems related to the processing and dissemination of imagery intelligence and geospatial information that may be transferred to, accepted or used by, or used on behalf of— (1) the armed forces, including any combatant command, component of a combatant command, joint task force, or tactical unit; or (2) any other department or agency of the United States. **(f) Validation.—** The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall assist the Joint Chiefs of Staff, combatant commands, and the military departments in establishing, coordinating, consolidating, and validating mapping, charting, geomatics data, and safety of navigation capability requirements through a formal process governed by the Joint Staff. Consistent with validated requirements, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall provide aeronautical and nautical charts that are safe for navigation, maps, books, datasets, models, and geomatics products.

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10 U.S.C. § 193 — Combat support agencies: oversight

**(a) Combat Readiness.—** (1) Periodically (and not less often than every two years), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to the Secretary of Defense and the congressional defense committees a report on the combat support agencies. Each such report shall include— (A) a determination with respect to the responsiveness and readiness of each such agency to support operating forces in the event of a war or threat to national security; and (B) any recommendations that the Chairman considers appropriate. (2) In preparing each such report, the Chairman shall review the plans of each such agency with respect to its support of operating forces in the event of a war or threat to national security. After consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments and the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands, as appropriate, the Chairman may, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, take steps to provide for any revision of those plans that the Chairman considers appropriate. **(b) Participation in Joint Training Exercises.—** The Chairman shall— (1) provide for the participation of the combat support agencies in joint training exercises to the extent necessary to ensure that those agencies are capable of performing their support missions with respect to a war or threat to national security; and (2) assess the performance in joint training exercises of each such agency and, in accordance with guidelines established by the Secretary of Defense, take steps to provide for any change that the Chairman considers appropriate to improve that performance. **(c) Readiness Reporting System.—** The Chairman shall develop, in consultation with the director of each combat support agency, a uniform system for reporting to the Secretar

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50 U.S.C. § 3049b — National mission of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

**(a) In general** In addition to the Department of Defense missions set forth in [section 442 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section442&num=0&edition=prelim), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency shall support the geospatial intelligence requirements of the Department of State and other departments and agencies of the United States outside the Department of Defense. **(b) Requirements and priorities** The Director of National Intelligence shall establish requirements and priorities governing the collection of national intelligence by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under subsection (a). **(c) Correction of deficiencies** The Director of National Intelligence shall develop and implement such programs and policies as the Director and the Secretary of Defense jointly determine necessary to review and correct deficiencies identified in the capabilities of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to accomplish assigned national missions, including support to the all-source analysis and production process. The Director shall consult with the Secretary of Defense on the development and implementation of such programs and policies. The Secretary shall obtain the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding the matters on which the Director and the Secretary are to consult under the preceding sentence.

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10 U.S.C. § 442 — Missions

Page 469 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES § 442 ‘‘(A) to carry out its mission responsibilities under the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the Chair- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and ‘‘(B) to carry out its responsibilities to national intelligence customers in accordance with policies and priorities established by the Director of Central Intelligence.’’ ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL- INTELLIGENCE AGENCY; TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, § 1111, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2677, provided that: ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established in the Department of Defense a Defense Agency to be known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency [now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]. ‘‘(b) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS FROM DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ENTITIES.—The missions and functions of the following elements of the Department of Defense are transferred to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency [now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]: ‘‘(1) The Defense Mapping Agency. ‘‘(2) The Central Imagery Office. ‘‘(3) Other elements of the Department of Defense as specified in the classified annex to this Act [see section 1002 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as a note under section 114 of this title]. ‘‘(c) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS FROM CENTRAL INTEL- LIGENCE AGENCY.—The missions and functions of the following elements of the Central Intelligence Agency are transferred to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency [now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]: ‘‘(1) The National Photographic Interpretation Cen- ter. ‘‘(2) Other elements of the Central Intelligence Agency as specified in the classified annex to this Act. ‘‘(d) PRESERVATION OF LEVEL AND QUALITY OF IM- AGERY INTELLIGENCE SUPP

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50 U.S.C. § 3045 — Director of the National Reconnaissance Office

**(a) In general** There is a Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. **(b) Appointment** The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. **(c) Functions and duties** The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office shall be the head of the National Reconnaissance Office and shall discharge such functions and duties as are provided by this chapter or otherwise by law or executive order. **(d) Advisory Board** (1) **Establishment** — There is established in the National Reconnaissance Office an advisory board (in this section referred to as the “Board”). (2) **Duties** — The Board shall— (A) study matters relating to the mission of the National Reconnaissance Office, including with respect to promoting innovation, competition, and resilience in space, overhead reconnaissance, acquisition, and other matters; and (B) advise and report directly to the Director with respect to such matters. (3) **Members** (A) *Number and appointment* (i) *In general* — The Board shall be composed of up to 8 members appointed by the Director, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, from among individuals with demonstrated academic, government, business, or other expertise relevant to the mission and functions of the National Reconnaissance Office, and who do not present any actual or potential conflict of interest. (ii) *Membership structure* — The Director shall ensure that no more than 2 concurrently serving members of the Board qualify for membership on the Board based predominantly on a single qualification set forth under clause (i). (iii) *Notification* — Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Dire

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50 U.S.C. § 3045 — National mission of National Geospatial-

Page 637 TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE § 3045 § 3044. Software licensing (a) Requirement for inventories of software li- censes The chief information officer of each element of the intelligence community, in consultation with the Chief Information Officer of the Intel- ligence Community, shall biennially— (1) conduct an inventory of all existing soft- ware licenses of such element, including uti- lized and unutilized licenses; (2) assess the actions that could be carried out by such element to achieve the greatest possible economies of scale and associated cost savings in software procurement and usage, including— (A) increasing the centralization of the management of software licenses; (B) increasing the regular tracking and maintaining of comprehensive inventories of software licenses using automated discovery and inventory tools and metrics; (C) analyzing software license data to in- form investment decisions; and (D) providing appropriate personnel with sufficient software licenses management training; and (3) submit to the Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community each inventory required by paragraph (1) and each assessment required by paragraph (2). (b) Inventories by the Chief Information Officer of the Intelligence Community The Chief Information Officer of the Intel- ligence Community, based on the inventories and assessments required by subsection (a), shall biennially— (1) compile an inventory of all existing soft- ware licenses of the intelligence community, including utilized and unutilized licenses; (2) assess the actions that could be carried out by the intelligence community to achieve the greatest possible economies of scale and associated cost savings in software procure- ment and usage, including— (A) i

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